> At the University of North Carolina at Wilmington, researchers created a system that attempts to identify transgender people before and after they medically

> At the University of North Carolina at Wilmington, researchers created a system that attempts to identify transgender people before and after they medically transition with hormone replacement therapy. To do this, researchers scoured YouTube for ‘transition timeline’ videos, which typically involve a series of photographs charting a person’s face changing over time. These videos are extremely personal, and a source of empowerment for the trans community... This isn't a trans issue, this is a 'digital consent' issue. As noted in the linked Verge article, "[t]he MegaFace dataset compiled by the University of Washington, for example, contains 4.7 million images of roughly 627,000 individuals — all taken from Flickr users." It is fair to say that many of those photos are deeply personal. So then, this raises a much larger question - not about digital ethics as applied to trans people, but digital ethics as applied to people: where are the lines drawn in fair-use for public content? Do you get to dictate what happens to your data that you upload to someone else's server publicly?